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Chicago’s House Theatre Stages “Rose and the Rime”

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"Rose and the Rime," the nationally acclaimed play developed at Hope College, is about
to begin a two-month presentation by The House Theatre of Chicago, Ill.

The House Theatre will be presenting the play with its own cast at The Chopin Theatre
in Chicago from Thursday, Feb. 19, through Saturday, April 11.

Hope College Theatre originally presented - and premiered - "Rose and the Rime" in
April 2007 in the DeWitt Center main theatre.

The play was written and created by guest artist Nathan Allen, who is the artistic
director of The House Theatre and was the Hope production's director, in a collaborative
effort with the cast and design team. Allen worked with Hope students throughout
the 2006-07 school year in creating the play. He began in October 2006, with monthly
intensive workshops for actors, directors, technicians and writers which culminated
in his residency at the college in March and April of 2007.

In April 2008, "Rose and the Rime" was one of only three full-length college/university-staged
plays chosen for presentation during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
(ACTF) National Festival in Washington, D.C., from among the best productions highlighted
during the eight ACTF regional festivals held around the U.S. in January and February
of that year. "Rose and the Rime" was the only production from the ACTF Great Lakes
Region festival in Milwaukee, Wis., to have the honor of being under consideration
for the national festival. Many of the original Hope cast and crew were able to reprise
their involvement for the Great Lakes and KennedyCenter presentations.

"Rose and the Rime" is set in the fictional town of Radio Falls, Mich., where it is
always winter. The community has been laid waste by the terrible Rime Witch, and is
a world without flowers, apples, mail or dancing -- but with an abundance of snow,
wind and ice cream. The shining beacon in the wintry gloom is a young girl named Rose,
who takes it upon herself to make a treacherous journey to the frozen cave of the
Witch in the hope of changing her town's fate.

The Feb. 19-April 11 run of "Rose and the Rime" by The House Theatre will include
performances on Thursdays through Sundays. Performance times and ticket prices are:
Thursdays, 8 p.m., $25; Fridays, 8 p.m., $27; Saturdays, 8:30 p.m., $29; Sundays,
7 p.m., $25. The box office can be called at (773) 251-2195.